Opinion
Rainey Reads Mean Yik Yaks
By Guest Contributor | March 24, 2016Rainey Reads Mean Yik Yaks from Margaret Lindon on Vimeo. Charles Rainey ’19 is from Lithonia, Georgia.
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Opinion
The Case for Makerspace
By Guest Contributor | March 23, 2016What makes an idea powerful? A good idea is not implicitly powerful; an idea is made powerful by being shared. Over the past few months, a friend and I have built a laser sensor system that tracks and updates how crowded the dining halls are, so students can make more informed decisions about how to ...
Opinion
The College and The Campus
By Guest Contributor | March 23, 2016Katrina Drury, the first-year responsible for last week’s opinion piece “It’s Not Fair,” shows no remorse. Like her prior writings, Drury openly attacks Black and Brown people here in The Campus, the widest read medium for college voices past and present. At best, the op-ed’s social outlook ...
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Equity Before Equality
By Guest Contributor | March 23, 2016This column is written by white students and for white students. Each week, we will discuss topics or themes regarding race and, more specifically, the role of whiteness in race relations. If you would like to reach out to us personally to continue these conversations, please feel free to do so. “Equity ...
Opinion
Racism Doesn't Exist
By Guest Contributor | March 23, 2016I’m only human, but I think it’s long past time for me to shrug off the pitiful garments of my victimhood and take a stand, and as a person with Black heritage, I believe that I am an authority in my community and can thus speak for all of us. I mean, all Black people are basically the same, and ...
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White Privilege in the Face of the Law
By Guest Contributor | March 16, 2016This article is not meant to be comprehensive as it neither discusses the depth and complexities of policing, prosecution and incarceration nor the intersections of identities. We encourage you to explore how trans and gender non-conforming people, queer people, people with disabilities and impoverished ...
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It’s Not Fair
By Guest Contributor | March 16, 2016Life’s not fair. Ever since we were little children, we’ve heard that phrase so many times, and while we never wanted to believe it, it’s true. Life isn’t fair. And it all starts at birth: we arrive into this world carrying different kinds of baggage already packed with genes that predetermine ...
Opinion
Imagining Radical Accountability for Sexual Violence
By Guest Contributor | March 16, 2016We will not engage in a “debate” about the college judicial process. We are not here to attack college administrators who are working within the confines of Title IX legislation to create as supportive and fair a process as they can. Despite administrators’ best intentions, the judicial process ...
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Not Victims, Not Risks, Not Impressed
By Guest Contributor | March 16, 2016This letter was co-authored by three Middlebury survivors. It is not our intention to speak for all survivors, but rather to speak from our own situated experiences. The identities inhabited within adjudicatory processes are not divorced from the world outside of them – race, class, ability, gender, ...
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Inclusion Beyond Tradition
By Guest Contributor | March 16, 2016“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.” — Toni Morrison Many of you may know, and others of you may wish not to know, that many members of our community are involved in “secret” societies on campus. From the leisure activities ...